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I Started A New Painting Today!
“Blushing Joy” 18×24″ Acrylic on canvas. It has been super warm weather for December this week and so I wanted to paint rather than do any winter crafts while it is fast drying weather! I was super inspired by the sunset colors during our dessert Thanksgiving trip this year and knew I wanted to paint
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Starting Our Homeschool Journey: What Charlotte Mason Is Teaching Me Already
We are planning on homeschooling our baby Jenny. I was homeschooled my whole pre-college education and attended homeschool conventions and conferences with my mom while I was in high school, so I feel pretty comfortable and confident with the general idea. But I want to research a bit more to plan what we will do
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Waiting for a Library Book and Rethinking My Whole Makeup Philosophy
Today I spent a lot of time researching how to make my own makeup. I am so excited about this idea because I know what I want my makeup to be color-wise (I am a Summer color season, muted and cool) and I have gotten to the point where I really don’t enjoy wearing irritating
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What I Love About Jane Freilicher’s Art
I found out about Jane Freilicher (1924–2014. Pronounced “Fry-licker”) this year when Professor Brian Fee from Concordia University Irvine recommended I research her. And what a good suggestion! She has been such an encouragement to me. So many artists in her time painted in an abstract expressionist style, and she did make a few in
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My Artist Inspirations: Frederick Childe Hassam
I’ve been drawn to Impressionism since my mom read me children’s picture books about Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) and other Impressionists when I was little. Her, John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), and Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935) were the most significant early American Impressionists. They made Impressionism famous in the U.S. Hassam had two main focuses in his career:
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Your Art Doesn’t Need Perfect Accuracy to Be Stunning
At an art exhibition I was at, an artist whose works I admired came over and looked at my paintings and said that the height and distance of certain parts of my paintings were inaccurate and that I should make sure to correct that in my future works. I knew that what he said was
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The Nature of Making Art (The Single Most Life-Changing Perspective an Artist Can Ever Hear)
Making Art is a Gift—Grace—We Receive and Serve “If the work comes to the artist and says, ‘Here I am, serve me.’ then the job of the artist, great or small, is to serve. The amount of the artist’s talent is not what it is about” — Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time,
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Success, Sweet Conviction, and Uneventful Inbetweens
Lord, this is significant that so many people want to buy my art. And, significant that You have so valuably and sweetly shown me to start planning a focal point in my paintings. John Mark Comer is right that, “We should expect our work to be a mixed bag… to give us a sense of
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The Most Important Thing in Making and Selling Art
I was so blessed to have the sweetest established artist reach out just to encourage me when I was first starting out selling my paintings, Gwen Duda, and what she said to me has encouraged me so much throughout the years. I hope it can encourage and bring clarity for you in your art journey
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Unlock Your Creative Potential with John Newton’s Timeless Writing Tips for Modern Creators
John Newton (1725-1807) was a preacher, a key figure in abolishing slavery in the UK, and the hymn writer of many songs, including “Amazing Grace.” Gleaning from such an impactful communicator is a no-brainer, but I’m particularly excited about his advice because it helped me transform my scattered thoughts into confidently creating this blog. While
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How The “Indefinitely Wild” Art Exhibition Impacted Me
In August 2023, I visited the UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art. I immediately connected with so many of the paintings in it. I was working on painting a Laguna cove and wanting to learn how better my craft from the previous cove paintings I had made. I walked around
